Search results for "1706" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) endeavored to test the theory that sparks shared some similarity with lightning using a spire which was being erected ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo (c. 1706) is a manual of instruction which exemplified the behavior expected of an ideal samurai. ...49 KB (7,556 words) - 03:06, 23 December 2022
- In May of 1706 Lord Halifax and Vanbrugh—representing the octogenarian Garter King of Arms, Sir Henry St George—led a delegation to Hanover ...51 KB (7,876 words) - 04:26, 3 May 2024
- This map fragment shows part of the Kalmyk Khanate, 1706. (Map Collection of the Library of Congress: "Carte de Tartarie" of Guillaume de L ...59 KB (8,936 words) - 17:18, 14 May 2024
- and Histoire(s) du cinéma (ECM NewSeries 1706). This collaboration expanded over the years, leading to Godard's granting ECM permission ...63 KB (9,163 words) - 20:22, 22 September 2023
- most memorable work was The London Spy (1704–1706). The London Spy, before The Spectator, took up the position of an observer and uncomprehendingly ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- settlers founded the old town of Albuquerque in 1706, naming it for the viceroy of New Spain, the Duke of Albuquerque. The Palace of the Governors ...63 KB (9,067 words) - 09:27, 11 March 2023
- in Tibet. The behavior of the sixth Dalai Lama (1683-1706), a poetry-writing womanizer, provided an excuse for Lha-bzang Khan, in 1705, to kill minister ...62 KB (9,319 words) - 23:23, 30 April 2023
- Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284. The Treaty of Union in 1706, ratified by the Acts of Union 1707, united the kingdoms of England (including Wales) and Scotland ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
